hogback

• “The valley lies between a high wall of red sandstone and the "hogback," -- that is what the foothills are called.”

  Letters on an Elk Hunt

• “A "hogback," be it understood, is a rugged rocky mound, carved by weather erosion.”

  The Free Range

• “The way led at first up the narrow spine of a "hogback," but soon widened into one of the ample and spacious parks peculiar to the elevations near the summits of the First Rampart.”

  The Rules of the Game

• “Professor L.kes, accompanied by his friend Mr. E.L. Beckwith, an engineer, was, one day in March, 1877, hunting along the "hogback" in the vicinity of Morrison, Colorado, for fossil leaves in the Dakota”

  Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections

• “The roads led between "hogback" hills, as they are called.”

  The end of an era,

• “A long spur, with broken ledges of rock, puts down to the river, and along its course, or up the "hogback," as it is called, I make the ascent.”

  Canyons of the Colorado

• “hogback" in the snow, running a curving parallel with the plain.”

  The Golden Snare

• “The last pack, from Long Lake to Linderman, was three miles, and the trail, if trail it could be called, rose up over a thousand-foot hogback, dropped down a scramble of slippery rocks, and crossed a wide stretch of swamp.”

  THE TASTE OF THE MEAT

• “It reappeared along a ridge half a mile distant, on a hogback near the north boundary.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “The German slipped and broke his ankle on the steep hogback above Deep Lake, sold out his stock for a dollar a dozen, and with the proceeds hired Indian packers to carry him back to Dyea.”

  THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN

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